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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Hello 🙂
0:52 What’s Not To Like?
3:46 What We NEED! 😀
12:27 AI Transformation!
18:07 Editing Tip Of the Week
21:00 Photos of The Week!
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OM Systems is the leader in preshooting. No extracting in camera (writes all to the card as separate frames), variable frame rates, and variable pre and post number of frames. C'mon Canon, get with it. Sorry, Wrote this before Glenn spoke about the Oly.
From a wildlife perspective I agree with you. From a long exposure landscape perspective I would love to see Canon offer ISO bracketing.
I use AI when I need to extend the crop. I find it does an amazing job. The remove tool in Photoshop is my new best friend for removing distractions. In Lightroom, the new masking tools are wonderful. From a negative standpoint of AI, I hate the generated birds that people are posting as if they are real birds. Your photos are proof that Mother Nature needs no improvement.
What do I want to see disappear? About $10,000 off the price!
Thought-provoking as always – thanks. Both top micro4/3 systems (pany. and OM) contain many (all?) of your 'wishes'. These set the bar for functionality (including in-body processing like simulated ND and hand-held hi-resolution), even if not matching image quality of full frame. For example, Panasonic's G9's "drive-mode dial" at the left-hand thumb makes it trivial to switch between single shot, burst, or pre-burst modes (and a few others). Not sure if the g9 ii has the same versatility, but this control provides what Jan was asking for – a "button" to switch pre-burst in or out instantly without looking.
The new AI tools in Lightroom and ACR are amazing. I use them more and more! I'm also using Photoshop layers much more than I did a year or two ago.
Talking of the bird with all the colour if it was me I would highlight the back area and pull the saturation right out to make the bird pop I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but an option but also like the headshot idea great video guys
New tech that fixes all of these "problems" is great. But go back in time…. remember FILM? And no image stabilization? We are becoming spoiled, I think. I guess we need a camera that we can simply set out in the field, and which will go out and find birds, take thousands of photos, and return to us. Then all we will have to do is dump the photos to our computers and process them. Seriously, though… as always I appreciate your content. I always learn something.
Your comments on the images help me to see things I would never have considered. And I've been in photography (not wildlife) for 30+ years. Thanks for all the great content.
Reality and the end result are becoming increasingly separated!
I would love the camera makers to come up with a way to back up photos direct from camera to hard drive via a cable.
I always watch your videos – very informative, thank you.
absolutely agree with you guys on the 600mm f/5.6 !
Theft protection built in is high on my list and well as at least 1TB of internal memory.
I just want Canon to compete with Nikon for wildlife lenses. A prime ~$6,000 like an RF800 f8.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that until camera companies ditch the hybrid cameras, photographers, and videographers will feel their camera is only half what they need. I don't take videos, so I paid for features that I will never use….I'd gladly pay the same price for a camera that was for only stills. How good of a stills camera only would $3k get us?
10:20 what's important, I will go even further.. I'd love to have Nikon 600 mm f6.3… Every manufacturer should have that, like Canon or Sony, but in more comfortable price… the weight of less than 1,4 kg and that sharpness.. I'd love to have that.
Thanks
Future of cameras will be a integrated unit which can fit in the back of lens and you control everything using a VR or smartphone. The pictures will be directly stored on the cloud. It will take away most of the hardware and storage away from camera. Wildlife lens can have multiple units which can be added or removed to make the lense telephoto & super-telephoto. Most of photography experience will software driven and less hardware driven…. OR am I crazy and thinking too much!
I find that with Canon R5 I have had more problems due to heat haze than I would find normal. I don't know if you've encountered that problem… Normally, it's not something I worry too much about, because I shoot at times and places where heat haze tends to be negligible. But when there is heat haze, I think the problem is acute with my R5 files. "Acute" as if the camera somehow worsened the problem. I've had once a direct comparison with someone shooting beside me the same bird at the same time with a very inferior APSC camera and see him obtain much sharper images… But I haven't heard any photographer commenting on this issue. Would love to know Jan if you've noticed any difference when shooting with Nikon. Perhaps a good comparison has not yet been made. If this were a real issue with Canon mirrorless and heat haze, or with Canon R5 specifically, I would like that to disappear in the future. And I agree about:
Wobbling (a nightmare when I try to show a sequence and suddenly shapes start twisting a bit, or melting as in a Dali painting).
Rolling shutter (have had the same question Glenn has asked himself about length of wings, many times! 😂, and with hummingbirds you can get weird things, as one wing twisting one way and the other in the opposite direction).
Is the brush pack for Photoshop or Lightroom?
I’ll stick with my Nikon D500,love it.😃
Given the competing sensor size criteria of low light capability and high resolution I think they should limit sensor size to best sensitivity while offering effective pixel shifting to increase resolution. You should be able to dial in the resolution you need for the application.
As a Nikon D500 user, I agree that a mirrorless crop sensor body with Z8/9 type focusing is a real need in the Nikon lineup. Meanwhile, I also have to say that I'm quite happy with my "obsolete" camera bodies.:) The photos of the week are still my favorite part of the videos. I found myself talking to the screen and telling Jan not to brighten the owl. The way it so perfectly matches the tree would be exactly what I would want to preserve. LOL. No perfect answers when it come to composition and editing, eh? Thanks, guys, great video.
Selective enhancement of light, color balance, etc. is valid, since the equipment imposes itself on these. But removing obstructions? Adding missing feathers? This is fakery. And it denigrates the hard work and fortune of someone who obtained a similar image, but without the stick in front, or of a healthier bird. I would ban all such images from any type of contest, and I am unimpressed by them.
I'm an original Affinity photo user, i dont think it has any ai functions, and that's perfect for me as i dont want any. I made the transition from dslar to mirrorless (z9 and d500 owner) and i enjoy the new capabilities that brings but I don't want the camera to do all the work as it would take all the enjoyment and satisfaction i get from having to learn the required skills and then develop my technique to be able to actually get the shots I'm after. That applies even more to editing. If i can take an out of focus, poorly exposed badly framed photo, and know that with the click of a button, my computer will produce the desired image, what's the point. Why bother learning and mastering anything if I'm ultimately not responsible for the outcome. It would be like learning to drive a racing car over many years and then racing a self driving car.
Il take a 600 f4 lense any day if I could afford it and damn sure wouldn't complain about the weight of it I wish I had the money to afford it.
like your discussions. I would like to see the numbering to not repeat after 10,000. on my R5. then I have duplicates
Thank you Glen for short listing my image for review and both for sharing your feedback. It means a lot and work on it
I saw a lot of great “unusable” photos made with the 4 MP Canon 1D and this was before social media which doesn’t need a lot of MP.
Great tips thank you
the earphones you guys use now lol XD feels like product placement 24/7
Hi MP cameras with no rolling shutter already exist for Sony and Nikon and to make every camera stacked would make cameras more expensive for those it's no a problem for. Battery life in the Z9 is great because of the size of the camera and the battery. You mention the solution, the grip. How about a grip with additional batter but also built in ssd. We defiantly need more long primes for Sony, a 500 or 600 6.3 under 1.5 KG would be great. If Sony don't make them maybe Tamron.
Fantastic video guys. Totally agree with your take on denoising software. This is one of the most essential tools for us bird photographers. Literally makes the unusable, usable! Also agree with your comments on the "remove" tool. By far the my most used tool these days in photoshop. A tremendous upgrade! Great vid cheers
The subject is Bird photography, Wildlife is much wider and for some wildlife especially big animals, and even bigger birds, demand less speed and focus challenges that BIF especially small BIF.
ie wud gon tu blur det baggrund of det the først foto you toking about
OM 1 mk II is the lighter system.. Impressed with the A2 prints. Have a Z9 as well…
Again OM system with AI software including all the AI enhancements, pixel and high iso wars beginning to make all this less important.
Thanks for the hard work you go through to bring these great videos to us.
This episode provides an excellent discussion of wish list improvements for FF DSLRs and the useful advances in AI focusing and post processing. Surprisingly, your wish list of camera improvements already pre-exist in the newest OM1 cameras and their best super telephoto lens. The boosted RAM working memory coupled with the very fast CPU processor and the fast readout with its state-of-the-art stacked sensor in the OM1 Mark II has eliminated rolling shutter problems, eliminated EVF blackouts at most shutter speeds used by wildlife photographers, boosted the buffer to 256 RAW images, improved the accessibility and customization of the Pro (pre) Capture feature, greatly improved the subject AI lock-on focus speeds and tracking, and has better controlled noise at hight ISOs. With regard to wished for improvements in the size, weight and speed of wildlife lenses, the Olympus/OMS 150-400mm 1.25 TC lens already has what you wish for: constant f/4.5 up to 800mm FF equivalent, f/5.6 at 1000mm, constant close focusing at 1.3 meters, and a weight just over 2 kilos. Yes, the sensor has a crop factor of 2 (Jan’s wishlist item), and yes it is 20MP. However, they are exceptionally well implemented megapixels in a rugged small weather sealed professional camera. You guys should give this m43 camera and lens combo a try and tell us what you think. Is it what you wish for?
With Canon, alter the Dof button to select silent, therefore going from standard to electronic and 20 frames per second
Banish EVF blackout! The Canon R3 with stacked sensor and blackout-less EVF is far better than the R5 for small, fast-moving birds. Getting swallows in flight is effortless with a blackout-less EVF. But the blinking EVF of the R5 makes it nearly impossible to follow birds that change direction quickly.
The mirrorless cameras need to get better at re-focusing. With my Nikon Z8, if I am focused behind a bird it stubbornly refuses to reacquire the focus on the bird, and sometimes when I am in focus in front of the bird it will focus THROUGH the bird and then hold focus behind. The cameras need to get better at jumping to focus.
Canon R6 so terrible for battery life, I’m changing batteries in the field all the time, it can be frustrating and I agree on the telling shutter
Great episode guys. Lots of different topics and as usual constructive comment on the photos.
OVF Standard: 5.4 MPX with 120 Hz Refresh Rate / BlackOut Free, but feeling organic.
Also: Handheld Highres and Stacking in Camera
Sensors: MFT – 28.6 MPX BSI Stacked Fluid Cooled (LowNoise until ISO6400) / APS-C – 34 MPX BSI Stacked / Full Frame – 54 MPX BSI Sensor